Folklore vol. 95

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2025/4 ISSN 1406-0957

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“To Hear The Mermaids Sing”: Visual Figuration, Myth and Desire in the Case of The Waterwoman	7
Louise S. Milne doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.milne
Ethnography of the Balkan Cults in Abruzzi and Molise (Italy): Two Case-Studies	69
Laurent Sébastien Fournier, Lia Giancristofaro doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.fournier_giancristofaro
Distinguishing Between Proverbs and Sayings According to Josef Mlacek’s Classification in Dictionaries and Paremiological Collections: The Case of Explanations of Meaning in Two Slovenian Dictionaries	85
Matej Meterc doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.meterc
Ukrainian Folk Dumy: Problems of Historical Development and Modern Performance	105
Inna Lisniak, Tetiana Cherneta doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.lisniak_cherneta
The Wedding Water (Neke Sui) and the Blending of Ancestral and Islamic Rituals in the Kazakh Traditional Marriage	129
Tattigul Kartaeva, Saltanat Ashimova doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.kartaeva_ashimova
The Wedding Ceremony in Kazakh Folklore: Yesterday and Today	163
Aktoty Mukhan, Kenzhekhan Matyzhanov, Zhanna Bugybayeva, Akedil Toishanuly doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.kazakh
The Rite of Passage among Karaite Turks: Birth	179
Emine Atmaca, Reshıde Gözdaş, Atila Kartal doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.atmaca_gozdas_kartal
Integration of Traditional Chinese Folk Music Culture into Music Education at Middle Schools	199
He Cao, Qian Xu, Yang Li doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.cao_xu_li
Chinese National Motifs in the Folk Song Mo Li Hua: Influence on Modern Chinese Music	221
Pinqi Zhang, Jin Gao doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.zhang_gao
Practical viewpoint
Some Aspects of Food Security/Insecurity of Ukrainian Society: The Socio-Economic Dimension - Vadym Nikolenko [237]
News in brief
Irina Sedakova 70.. - Editorial board of the journal Folklore:EJF [251] doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.n01 Nordic and Baltic Digital Humanities Conference “Digital Dreams and Practices”, March 3–7, 2025, in Tartu. - Mari Väina [253] doi:10.7592/FEJF2025.95.n02

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Electronic Journal of Folklore
Folklore
vol. 95. 2025
ISSN 1406-0957
DOI 10.7592/FEJF2025.95
Published by: ELM Scholarly Press

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Edited by Mare Kõiva
© Estonian Literary Museum
Estonian Institute of Folklore
Authors
Design Andres Kuperjanov
According to Creative Commons licence BY-NC-ND 4.0

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